Today is apparently the ‘no fucking way’ day.
As you can see from this BoingBoing article, the Japanese now have a live lobster vending machine that apparently. It costs 100 yen for 1 try (think, arcade claw machine) and apparently 500yen for 6 tries. This is less than $1 and $5 respectively… holy lobster batman!
If you want to know more about crazy Japanese vending machines, check out this site about Japanese vending machines
I got a letter stating that I had fully paid off one of my credit cards yesterday. Woohoo 
1 down, 4 to go. I also only owe $2,600 on my car, so I hope I can pay that off before the end of the year. After those two things, I will have -0- consumer (or any other, for that matter) debt! Of course, at that point, I would probably buy a house, however, I don’t view that as consumer debt.
Also, in an odd twist of fate, I was at the bar last week a bum bought me a drink, instead of the other way around. Karma, eh?
Apparently, hurricane Katrina loosed something a bit more dangerous than we all originally thought.
From The Guardian
It may be the oddest tale to emerge from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Armed dolphins, trained by the US military to shoot terrorists and pinpoint spies underwater, may be missing in the Gulf of Mexico.
Experts who have studied the US navy’s cetacean training exercises claim the 36 mammals could be carrying ‘toxic dart’ guns. Divers and surfers risk attack, they claim, from a species considered to be among the planet’s smartest. The US navy admits it has been training dolphins for military purposes, but has refused to confirm that any are missing.
‘My concern is that they have learnt to shoot at divers in wetsuits who have simulated terrorists in exercises. If divers or windsurfers are mistaken for a spy or suicide bomber and if equipped with special harnesses carrying toxic darts, they could fire,’ he said. ‘The darts are designed to put the target to sleep so they can be interrogated later, but what happens if the victim is not found for hours?’
I’m thinking about switching away from my current gallery software and moving everything to Flickr. If any of you have opinions on Flickr, let me know. If there’s anything you like or dislike about my current Gallery software, please let me know that as well.
(J, I know what you think about Gallery, no need to unleash a torrent of furry on me 
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Had a pretty interesting night last night. It’s the second time I’ve been at the hospital during the ass crack of morning in the past month (If you want to know about the other time, drop a comment and I’ll make a post about it).
Anyways, Evan and I were at The Scoreboard for some after work drinks and this girl came in and sat next to me. She was pretty attractive, specially for The Scoreboard (definitely not a place to pick up women ..neighborhood sports bar type of place). Anyways, she was talking to this red neck guy who kept going on and on about not minding living in a trailer while he was building his cabin, and how he worked on old cars yada yada. Evan kept trying to get me to ask him to say, “Git-R-Done!”. I was too scarred. I was not in the mood for an ass beating, or running from any sort of shotgun that might be conveniently stored in his trucks gun rack. I ordered some food which came with tater tots (my fav, yum!) and at the same time, Evan started telling this story about how Dan told Ruben to “stop rubbing your cock”. Anyways, Trisha, the bartender jokingly yelled at Evan saying, “Evan! There’s ladies present!” To which the girl that sat down next to me said, “I’m offended, I think you should give me some tater tots to make up for it.” So of course I did. If you’ve ever been to the Scoreboard, they always give you enough fries/taters to feed a small third world country. So, I pushed my plate towards her and she commenced picking at the plate until they were all gone. This wasn’t actually all that long, being as soon as it got down to the last few, Evan suddenly reached over, grabbed them all, and shoved every single last tater tot into his mouth at once. Anyways, we all talked for hours, and when we left, she ended up spraining her ankle.
I suppose this antic-dote is bit anti-climatic, but it was a pretty fun night out, more or less.
Here’s a set of photos on Flickr; direct from the Astrodome in New Orleans, LA